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Favourite Shakespeare Quotations.....Guess the quote, then add a new one....

259 replies

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 08:54

Looks like I inadvertently started a Shakespeare quotations thread on the Film quotes...Have been challenged by Worktostaysane. Come on all you English scholars! Here's an easy one to start us off:

"Kiss me Kate!"

OP posts:
Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:10

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through anohter man's eyes!

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:10

jelly = Lear

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:13

i have NO idea about the vile jelly, but desperate to know! is that really a quote or have you made it up?

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:14

jelly=n lear. i love it.
othello beet?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:14

from King Lear when Gloucester has his eyes taken out by cornwall

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:14

nope

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:15

and so form hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
and then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
and thereby hangs a tale

monkeytrousers · 23/03/2007 22:20

Are you randomly flicking thru a complete works Beety?

monkeytrousers · 23/03/2007 22:20

Is it A Winters tale?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:21

nope nope - both form same play

MT - vaguley -looking for quotes from plays I have done

turquoise · 23/03/2007 22:22

As you like it.

"All this the world well knows, yet none knows well
to shun the heaven that leads men to this hell".

berolina · 23/03/2007 22:23

Lear, Beety?

You taught me language, and my profit on it
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!

janeite · 23/03/2007 22:24

Caliban!!!

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:25

not sure aobut Turquoiise

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:25

no AS YOU like it

berolina · 23/03/2007 22:26

that's right.

turquoise - Measure for Measure? Winter's Tale?

janeite · 23/03/2007 22:26

Berolina's is Caliban in The Tempest.

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:27

cowards die many times before their deaths
the valiant never taste of death but once

berolina · 23/03/2007 22:28

macbeth?

turquoise · 23/03/2007 22:28

Mine's a bit sneaky (that's a clue)

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:28

turq, thats a sonnet which i think begins:
an expense of lust in a waste of shame
is lust in action...
am i right.
its definately a sonnet though...

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 22:28

oh you cheeky perosn - a sonnet

turquoise · 23/03/2007 22:29

Spot on. My favourite sonnet.

workstostaysane · 23/03/2007 22:35

heaven forbid my outside hath not charmed her

turquoise · 23/03/2007 22:37

Don't let me have killed the thread!

Don;t know Beety's one.

How about:

"Gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us uopn Saint Crispin's day"

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